Hey everyone, my dad says he still wants me to rebuild his rig, as well as i can create my own. We are going to get a 60gb external drive to backup all our stuff, so we dont have to worry about backups. I've been selecting parts for his build, going for a lot of combos and such (cases w/ psu, mobo w/ onboard vid, etc)

can you just look over the stuff i've selected and tell me if its good? try to keep the budget ~300 dollars...

im re-using his monitor and speakers, and ive got a cheap logitech keyboard/mouse im going to get him...

ndatoxicity, for me (when you saw my post about my build for my friend) it was a toss up between the case I picked over there and the case AR showed you..Either looks good and seem to be okay. I have had people tell me that Rosewill cases are a bit more "flexy" (metal wise) but if you aren't hauling them all over, I don't see that as a major problem. I would go with the board AR selected as well. I've had a few PC Chips boards stroll through my shop...I don't know if they have a parent brand (I heard ECS at one point...whether it's true is to be determined, but...), but I'm not fond of them. I'd grab the Gigabyte AR recommended. Since worship's post, my friend (in my build) wants the quad phenom, so I'm going back to the 740G gigabyte as well. We are pretty much doing identical builds, minus the case and cpu now :P

Edit: Oh, btw, go back to newegg and check out the 320gb drives. I think they were only 5 bucks more than the 250gb's last I saw...could be wrong...but just check. WD's seem to run a bit cheaper...and they are just as good...both very reputable brands!